News @6? "W/House Carville Accused/Jailed 4 Domestic Violence" The Montgomery County Ledger
By Lee Canular, 20-January-1999 Wednesday
ROCKVILLE, MD -- James Carville, vocal supporter and
confidant of President Bill Clinton, reportedly spent last
Monday night in the Montgomery County Jail after he was
arrested on suspicion of firing a gun into a sofa and
repeatedly plunging a knife into a wall during a fight with
his wife in their suburban home here earlier that evening,
according to local police sources.
Rockville police said neighbors called them to the
Carville home at about 6:40 p. m. Monday evening after
hearing gunshots.
Carville, an internationally known political consultant
and Democrat Party campaign manager, allegedly had twice
discharged a Glock nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol
inside the home, damaged a living room wall with an
oversized hunting knife, threatened the life of his wife,
radio talk show host Mary Matalin Carville, and used
physical force against her.
Rockville police subsequently took him into custody on
suspicion of domestic violence and brandishing a weapon,
both misdemeanors. He was also charged with discharging a
firearm in a negligent manner, a violation which could be
prosecuted as a felony.
Carville, 54, apparently was not shooting at his wife when
he twice fired at the couch, although she was in the room at
the time, said Rockville Police Lt. Bobby Masters. The
woman was not injured, Masters noted, and it did not appear
that the safety of the couple's two young children was ever
jeopardized.
Masters also indicated that officers confiscated the
handgun, as well as the hunting knife, two shotguns, and an
AR-15 model semi-automatic assault rifle, and are holding t
hem as evidence as their investigation continues. The pistol
firearm, which has no serial number, is believed to be
unregistered.
After his night's detention, Mr. Carville posted bail on
a preliminary charge of domestic violence in the amount of
$3500 Tuesday morning, pending formal arraignment in
Montgomery County Superior Court on Friday, February 12,
1999.
Outside the court room, Carville's attorney, Mr. Harrison
Jackson of the Washington, D. C. firm of Waltham, Jackson
and Curtis, said neither of the Carvilles would be making
public comments on the matter. "They both just want to
bring this whole thing to closure as soon as possible," said
Mr. Jackson.
Mrs. Carville did not attend the bail hearing and has not
eturned repeated phone calls.
The couple is known for their co-authorship of All's
Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (Simon &
Schuster/ Random House, 1994), one of the best selling
campaign memoirs in American history. During their 1992
courtship, Mrs. Carville, nee Matalin, was a campaign
manager for President Bush's re-election effort, and Mr.
Carville worked for the Clinton campaign.
Ami DeCour contributed to this article.
01-20-99 0937EST Copyright 1999 The Montgomery County
Ledger, Inc.
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And they leave this guy alone w/Clinton??? |
